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Temperature Control As Key Factor for Optimal Biohydrogen 1 Temperature control as key factor for optimal biohydrogen 2 production from thermomechanical pulping wastewater 3 4 5 Paolo Dessì a,* , Estefania Porca b, Aino–Maija Lakaniemi a, Gavin Collins b, Piet N. L. Lens a,c 6 7 a Tampere University of Technology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, P.O. Box 541, FI-33101 8 Tampere, Finland 9 bMicrobial Communities Laboratory, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland 10 Galway, University Road, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland 11 cUNESCO–IHE, Institute for Water Education, Westvest 7, 2611AX Delft, The Netherlands 12 13 Manuscript submitted to: Biochemical Engineering Journal 14 15 *Corresponding author: Phone: +39 3897651830, e-mail: [email protected], mail: Tampere 16 University of Technology, P.O. Box 541, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland 17 Estefania Porca: [email protected] 18 Aino-Maija Lakaniemi: [email protected] 19 Gavin Collins: [email protected] 20 Piet N.L. Lens: [email protected] 21 22 1 23 Abstract 24 This study evaluates the use of non-pretreated thermo-mechanical pulping (TMP) wastewater as a 25 potential substrate for hydrogen production by dark fermentation. Batch incubations were 26 conducted in a temperature gradient incubator at temperatures ranging from 37 to 80 °C, using an 27 inoculum from a thermophilic, xylose-fed, hydrogen-producing fluidised bed reactor. The aim was 28 to assess the short-term response of the microbial communities to the different temperatures with 29 respect to both hydrogen yield and composition of the active microbial community. High 30 throughput sequencing (MiSeq) of the reversely transcribed 16S rRNA showed that 31 Thermoanaerobacterium sp. dominated the active microbial community at 70 °C, resulting in the -1 32 highest hydrogen yield of 3.6 (± 0.1) mmol H 2 g COD tot supplied. Lower hydrogen yields were 33 obtained at the temperature range from 37 to 65 °C, likely due to consumption of the produced 34 hydrogen by homoacetogenesis. No hydrogen production was detected at temperatures above 70 35 °C. Thermomechanical pulping wastewaters are released at high temperatures (50 to 80 °C), and 36 thus dark fermentation at 70 °C could be sustained using the heat produced by the pulp and paper 37 plant itself without any requirement for external heating. 38 39 Keywords 40 Dark fermentation, MiSeq, Pulp and paper mill wastewater, Thermoanaerobacterium , 41 Thermomechanical pulping, Thermophilic 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 2 49 1. Introduction 50 Pulp and paper industry is facing an economic challenge due to globalised competition and 51 decreasing paper demand (Machani et al., 2014). The long-term success of the industry is believed 52 to be strictly linked to the ability of companies to innovate and create new value streams, which are 53 predicted to generate 40% of the companies’ turnover in 2030 (Toppinen et al., 2017). A biorefinery 54 concept, in which waste from the pulp and paper making process is used as a resource to generate 55 value-added products such as biofuels and biochemicals, is a promising strategy to expand the 56 product platform, reduce waste disposal costs and fulfil the environmental regulations on waste 57 emissions (Kinnunen et al., 2015; Machani et al., 2014; Moncada B. et al., 2016). 58 59 Pulping is the major source of polluted wastewaters of the whole papermaking process (Pokhrel and 60 Viraraghavan, 2004). Pulp mill wastewater is typically treated by the traditional activated sludge 61 process, but anaerobic processes have the advantages of coupling wastewater treatment to 62 renewable energy production, produce a lower quantity of waste sludge and require a smaller 63 volume than aerobic processes (Ashrafi et al., 2015). Among pulping processes, thermomechanical 64 pulping (TMP) produces a wastewater more suited for anaerobic biological processes than 65 chemical-based pulping, due to the low concentrations of inhibitory compounds such as sulphate, 66 sulphite, hydrogen peroxide, resin acid and fatty acids (Ekstrand et al., 2013; Rintala and Puhakka, 67 1994). 68 69 Thermomechanical pulping wastewater has been successfully used as a substrate for both 70 mesophilic (Gao et al., 2016) and thermophilic (Rintala and Lepistö, 1992) methane production via 71 anaerobic digestion. However, hydrogen (H 2) is a carbon free fuel expected to play a pivotal role in 72 energy production in the future (Boodhun et al., 2017). Dark fermentative H2 production has the 73 potential for energy recovery from waste paper hydrolysate (Eker and Sarp, 2017), pulp and paper 74 mill effluent hydrolysates (Lakshmidevi and Muthukumar, 2010) and even from untreated pulps 3 75 (Nissilä et al., 2012). Dark fermentative H2 production has also been reported from carbohydrate- 76 containing wastewaters, such as starch wastewater and palm oil mill effluent (Badiei et al., 2011; 77 Xie et al., 2014). Although TMP wastewaters are characterized by a high content of carbohydrates 78 (25 to 40% of the total COD) (Rintala and Puhakka, 1994), to our knowledge it has not yet been 79 tested as a substrate for H2 dark fermentation. 80 81 Thermophilic dark fermentation of TMP wastewater could be advantageous, as both biological 82 polysaccharide hydrolysis (Elsharnouby et al., 2013) and H2 yielding reactions (Verhaart et al., 83 2010) are favoured by high temperature. High temperature also limits the growth of 84 homoacetogenic bacteria and methanogenic archaea (Oh et al., 2003), which may consume the 85 produced H2 in mixed culture systems. The main drawback of thermophilic processes is the energy 86 required to heat the reactors, but TMP wastewaters are released from the pulping process at a 87 temperature of 50 to 80 °C (Rintala and Lepistö, 1992), and could therefore be treated in 88 thermophilic bioreactors with minimal, or even without external heating. 89 90 Temperature is a key factor in dark fermentation, as even a change of a few degrees may result in 91 the development of a different microbial community and thus, affect the H2 yield (Dessì et al., 92 2018; Karadag and Puhakka, 2010). Understanding of the composition of the microbial community 93 is also crucial in order to optimize the complex microbial H2 production process, involving both 94 hydrolytic and fermentative microorganisms (Kumar et al., 2017). Microbial communities from 95 dark fermentation of lignocellulose-based waste and wastewaters have been previously studied at 96 DNA level (Nissilä et al., 2012; Xie et al., 2014), but a RNA-based approach can provide more 97 detailed information on the microorganisms that produce (and consume) H2. Furthermore, the time 98 response on RNA changes is much faster than on DNA changes (De Vrieze et al., 2016), allowing 99 to detect the response of the microbial community to an environmental change in a relatively short 100 time. 4 101 102 In a previous study, a mixed culture was successfully adapted to thermophilic (70 °C) dark 103 fermentation of xylose in a fluidised bed reactor (FBR) and the H2 producing 104 Thermoanaerobacterium sp. accounted for > 99% of the active microbial community (Dessì et al., 105 2018). In this study, the same adapted mixed culture was used to test if TMP wastewater is a 106 suitable substrate for dark fermentative H 2 production at various temperatures (from 37 to 80 °C), 107 and to describe how the active microbial community responds to the different temperatures. 108 109 2. Materials and methods 110 2.1 Source of microorganisms 111 The inoculum used in this study was biofilm-coated activated carbon originating from a 112 thermophilic fluidised bed reactor (FBR) used to study H2 production from xylose via dark 113 fermentation by gradually increasing the temperature of the reactor from 55 to 70 °C (Dessì et al., 114 2018). The FBR was initially inoculated with heat-treated (90 °C, 15 min) activated sludge 115 originating from a municipal wastewater treatment plant (Viinikanlahti, Tampere, Finland). The 116 biofilm-coated activated carbon granules were sampled after 185 days of reactor operation, at that 117 point the FBR had been operated at 70 °C for 27 days. No xylose was present in the FBR medium at 118 the sampling time. The granules were stored at 4 °C for one week prior to utilisation. This inoculum 119 was used because the microbial community was dominated by Thermoanaerobacterium sp. (Dessì 120 et al., 2018), which previously showed potential for hydrolysis of lignocellulosic substrates and H2 121 production from the resulting sugars (Cao et al., 2014). 122 123 2.2 Wastewater characterization 124 The wastewater was collected from a pulp and paper mill located in Finland. It was the effluent of a 125 TMP process, in which wood was exposed to a high-temperature (120 °C) steam in order to obtain 126 the pulp. The wastewater had a temperature of about 70 °C at the time of the sampling, but was 5 127 cooled down and stored at 4 °C to minimise biological activity that might affect its composition. 128 The wastewater had a pH of 5.0 and a composition as given in Table 1. 129 130 Table 1 here 131 132 2.3 Temperature-gradient batch set–up 133 The batch cultures were conducted in anaerobic tubes with a total volume of 26 mL (17 mL 134 working volume and 9 mL headspace). The tubes were inoculated by adding 2 mL of biofilm- 135 coated activated carbon granules to 15 mL of TMP wastewater (Table 1). All the tubes were flushed 136 with N 2 for 5 min, and the internal pressure was equilibrated to atmospheric pressure by removing 137 the excess gas using a syringe and a needle before incubation. The initial pH of the batch cultures 138 (wastewater and inoculum) was adjusted to 6.3 (± 0.1) using 1 M NaOH, as higher pH may favour 139 the growth of methanogenic archaea (Jung-Yeol et al., 2012).
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